Hola hermanas y hermanos!
As I write this update from Mexico it is 8:00pm on Wednesday night. The last few days have flown by as our team has worked hard from the time we leave in the morning until we crash in our beds at night. We have had the privaledve of working with a different church each day.
In Monday we were outside the city working among 850,000 people who live in concrete houses built on top of each other on the side of a mountain. After preparing several hundreds gospels of John to pass out we teamed up with members from the small church there and went door-to-door passing out gospels and inviting the people we met to the worship service we were having that night. To say the streets are steeply inclined would be a severe understatement. This area is 7,000 ft above sea level and we could feel it. Arlinda and I were out of breath after the first street and were thankful our church partners were too. We ate lunch with the church there and then did vbs and had a worship service. I hope we were an encouragement to the small church there as they have been experiencing persecution in their community.
On tuesday we went into Mexico City and fed over 400 homeless men and women at a shelter. It was a testimony to the Church working for a common goal as we and the Baptist church we were working with partnered with a Korean Presbyterian church to feed the homeless in a Pentocoastal church's building. Carlos preached the gospel and all there heard the gospel. The service ended with the dedication of a 3 wk old baby (his dad, mom, and sibling are all homeless). On Tuesday night we ministered at a rural church. Now when I say rural I mean we had to walk 1/2 mile down a narrow trail to get to the church. The houses and church in this area are only assessible by foot. This was quite an adventure when we left in the dark! This area was very poor, even by Mexican standards. The church was grateful for our service and we were blessed by their hospitality.
On Wednesday we did gospel saturation again with a different church outside the city. We found several receptive people although the vast majority of the people there are Catholic. The streets here were no better than Monday's puebla and by tonight our feet and legs are done. At the vbs tonight we were told to expect around 25 kids and 80 showed up. Summer, Danielle and the vbs crew did a great job adjusting and with Carlos' help they all heard the gospel.
Our team is doing a great job ministering to the people here and adapting to whatever has come along. Several tears have already been shed as we see the lostness of the people here and want them to know Christ. Satan has used religion to blind the eyes of the people to the truth of the gospel. Please pray for us as we go out again tomorrow door-to-door that God would lead us to people he is drawing to Himself.
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